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Class analysis and culture what the snee

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Class analysis and culture what the snee Teach ƯS Julia Adams13 Against the Wal-Martization of America: Lessons for the Labor Movement from the 1LWU and UFCW in CaliforniaSam Bernstein77 Labo

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MENT121 Members125 Recent Faculty Publications137 Yale Sociology Colloquia SeriesClass Analysis and Culture: What the Sneetches Can Teach UsJulia Adam

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sDr. Seuss' rhe Sncctches is the lightest of literary confections. So what does it have to do with the weighty topic of the constitution of classes, a

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Class analysis and culture what the snee ell as amusing. They exemplify the several ways that culture enters into the concept of class as sociologists deploy it. How have class analysts under

stood the category of class, and how could more explicitly incorporating culture improve their approach? Dr. Seuss points the way.These days many book Class analysis and culture what the snee

s and articles in the class analytical tradition have titles like The Death of Class (Pakulski and Waters 1996); The Classless Society (Kingston 2000)

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and The Breakdown of Class Politics (Clark and Lipset 2001). “Do big classes really matter?” ask Kim Weeden and David Grusky (2005), and they answer

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Class analysis and culture what the snee ociology that class is under siege.Two main critiques are at issue. The first, which I do not address here, involves a claim that the historical lands

cape has changed in the United States and other advanced industrial-capitalist societies, and class no longer structures people’s lives the way it onc Class analysis and culture what the snee

e did. The second critique, my focus in this paper, is that the concept of class never actually did the analytical heavy lifting that it was billed as

Class analysis and culture what the snee

doing, especially in sociologists' causal arguments about the world, and requires radical surgery if it isn’t to be eliminated altogether. This claim

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Class analysis and culture what the snee se. And it is new in the mainstream of sociological class analysis. In the 1959 debate, for example, Nisbet’s skeptical position was opposed by both R

udolf Heberle, taking the Marxian position, and Otis Dudley Duncan, for the quantitatively-inclined stratificationists.© YALE JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, VO Class analysis and culture what the snee

LUME 5, 20056 YALE JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGYThis argument - that the old, “big” or aggregative concept of class doesn’t assess what it claims to - is best

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articulated in a series of provocative papers by David Grusky and his associates, including Grusky and Sorensen (1998); Grusky and Weeden (2001) and n

Class analysis and culture what the snee ld “big class model” in either its gradational or categorical versions. Gm sky and Weeden (2001) instead recommend focusing on the “proximate mechanis

ms” that link locations “at the point of production” with “life chances, attitudes and behaviors” like voting, etc. This is a great start, but it does Class analysis and culture what the snee

n't go far enough. I will explain why I think so, and why their refusal of what they dub “postmodernism” unduly limits their analysis. But first a lit

Class analysis and culture what the snee

tle more background.1Grusky and Weeden are interested in how people who come to fill distinct occupational slots - to hold certain jobs - come to rese

Class analysis and culture what the snee atekeepers select them on the basis of certain key attributes as well. (These allocation processes can be more or less formal, including credentialing

and apprenticeship programs.) Once on the job, people engage in practices and have experiences that further bond and socialize them. Like the allocat Class analysis and culture what the snee

ive processes that take them into these positions in the first place, Grusky and Weeden agree, socialization and bonding take place more at the occupa

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tional than at the “big class” level - at least in advanced industrial capitalist societies. They clearly see what John Goldthorpe (2002) calls “the S